TV room
A television room was a room or place for watching television broadcasts together in the early stages of television in Germany.
Starting position
Cinemas and cinemas that you could go to for film tours existed long before television began. In 1927 there were more than 4,000 cinemas in Germany alone.
Televisions that could transmit a live picture were, however, very expensive in the early days at 2500 and 3600 Reichsmarks and could only be purchased by a few. In addition, the program was still very limited with three broadcasts a week between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. This led to the fact that hardly any televisions were purchased and television rooms should be set up for an exclusive audience. The first regular television broadcasts in Germany began on March 22, 1935.
The development was also driven with the aim of spreading National Socialist propaganda , which was supposed to ensure, for example, that the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin could be broadcast. At the start of television broadcasting, the Reich broadcasting director Eugen Hadamovsky said that the radio would be called to fulfill the “greatest and most sacred mission”, which was “to plant the image of the Führer in all German hearts”.
history
Beginning time and propaganda
The first television studios in Germany were opened in Berlin in March 1935 and mainly showed magic tricks , juggling interludes and National Socialist propaganda . The first public television reception point for community reception was set up on April 9, 1935 in the Berlin Reichspostmuseum (corner of Leipziger Strasse and Mauerstrasse). Every evening there was an hour and a half of programming, which put Germany seven months ahead of the BBC .
At first the quality was so bad that you had to rely on a speaker, for example. The rooms were aimed at around 20 people with a small screen. The picture was transmitted by the television station Paul Nipkow . Later the screens got bigger and the rooms could accommodate up to 300 people. Here the television was projected onto a screen by a projector , which was then also known as a "large-screen television station". In 1936 there were 27 public television rooms in Germany. The 1936 Olympic Games were the first major sporting event to be broadcast, and for the first time brought a live and community feeling through a television broadcast. The daily broadcast time was increased to eight hours. Around 160,000 people are said to have seen broadcasts of the games. Later on, UFA films such as “ Die Lokomotivenbraut ” or little traffic education films (“ Attention, Red Light ”) were shown in the rooms. With the beginning of the Second World War , the rooms were to be closed in August 1939, as they had already served their purpose and with a total of just 500 television receivers connected they would no longer be financially viable. Since the program was rated by supporters as "important to the war effort", it was broadcast until October 1944 and used for entertainment in hospitals, for example .
post war period
Only after the war did the television market in Germany begin to grow rapidly, television operations in the GDR and the Federal Republic began in 1952. More and more pubs were equipped with televisions that broadcast sports events such as the " Miracle of Bern ". In villages and closer neighborhoods, for example, people met to watch TV together in TV rooms, for example to save on acquisition costs. The home area has also grown and promoted, for example, through the first family programs. As a result, the number of public TV rooms decreased and, with the exception of special events and areas of gastronomy , were outsourced to the private sector with cheaper TV sets .
See also
literature
- Wolfgang König : Volkswagen, people's receiver, people's community. “People's Products ” in the Third Reich: On the Failure of a National Socialist People's Community , Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, pp. 100–114, ISBN 3-506-71733-2 .
Web links
- Article about TV rooms on wasistwas .de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Andreas Spinrath: First public television station: 300 men in the parlor . ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. one day , April 7, 2015
- ↑ News from television. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , May 3, 1935, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ husfl.net
